A study into Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program showed the program had negative environmental impacts.
That’s the thing about Progressives, they have good intentions, but don’t know squat about economics. So they make horrible decisions that costs everyone.
Cash for Clunkers Was a Complete Failure | Daniel J. Mitchell
Keynesian economics is fundamentally misguided because it focuses on how to encourage more spending when the real goal should be to figure out policies that result in more income. Consumption doesn’t drive growth, it’s a consequence of growth.
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This is one of the reasons I wish people focused moreon “gross domestic income,” which is a measure of how we earn our national income (i.e., wages, small business income, corporate profits, etc) rather than on “gross domestic product,” which is a measure of how our national income gets allocated (consumption, investment, government, etc).
Simply stated, Keynesians put the cart before the horse. Consumption doesn’t drive growth, it’s a consequence of growth.
But let’s set all that aside because we have new evidence that Keynesian stimulus schemes aren’t even very good at artificially goosing consumption.